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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

The JoURNAL-MINER is in receipt of a neat little souvenir of the approaching centennial celebration of the adoption of the constitution of the United States, to be held in Philadelphia, September IS.
 I6 and IT. It IS a neat little cloth bound book, two and half by three and half inches in size, and contains the constitution of the United States, together with history of the proceed Ings taken to celebrate the centennial anniversary of its framing and promul- gation. It was sent by Samuel A Henszey, commissioner from Arizona. The occasion will be celebrated with a military display and literary and orator. ical exercises, and the commissioner writes that "There is manifested . very general enthusiasm, and if any locality should fail to appear m the celebration if will be most unfortunate. It was my hope that in such connection the people of Arizona might individually interest themselves to secure the advantages to be attained There yet remains time, but if ii is found imprac,icable to con- summate such plan, no excuse can be successfully advanced for failure to re- sDond at home with patriotic impulse to this great national event. The advanced progress of our great country at the com pletion of the first century of the funda- mental law, the peace and prosperity which we have attained hereunder, each and all should move us to veneration for the authors of that law, admiration for the principles therein enunciated and emulation in the strict adherence to its requirements"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

The secretary of the navy has sent his personal check for $35a.o5 to reimburse Paymaster Frank H. Arms, of the United States navy, for stoppage in his pay to that amount made by the second comp iroIler of the treasury. When the board of visitors went to the naval academy at Annapolis. in June, 1886, to supervise the examination of the cadets, Paymaster Arms. who was and still is on duty there, was designated to provide for the per sonal comfort of the board, for which a special appropriation of Sa,Soo was available. His accounts were rendered in due form to the treasury department and contained various items of purchases made for the visitors mess, which in cluded wines, liquors, cigars and table Iuxuries. These items to the amount of $352o2 were disallowed and charged against the officers pay. Secretary Whit ney. under whose authority the expendi- lures were made, endeavored unsuccess- fully to have the accounts allowed, and finally drew his own check, on the gronnd that he was better of to pay the govern ment's little debts than Arms.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

The corono-s jury found that the wrecking of the excursion train neal Chatsworth, Illinois, by which was de- molished eight coaches, and enc bag. gage car and either killed or wounded most of the occupants In said coaches, were coused by the said bridge having been burned out before the train struck 1t. It further found that the foreman o the section. Timothy Coughlin, disobeyed positive orders. from his superior to ex anime the track and bridges on hl: section the last thing on "Wednesday that said Foreman Coughlin was guilty of gross and criminal carelessness in leaving fire burning along the track in such dry season, and with such q strong wind blowing. We recommend he be held for examination by the grand jury, and further, it IS the opinion that leaving the track without being patrolled for SIX hours before the passing of the excursion train, and the,kindling of fires by section men on such dry and windy day, were acts which deserve severe criticism.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
Sr,o,ooo per year.

Taking pattern after Arizona, our sis ter territory, New Mexico, is arousing itself to the importance of the irrigation problem. An irrigation and colonization company has been organized. and. fl has arranged to commence at once to build large irrigation ditch on the wes side of the Rio Grande. The water will be taken from the rver at or near the San Felipe Indian village, and will run down the valley and along the foothills 10 point near San Antonio. where the water will again be turned into the Rio Grande. A survey sho~s that this ditch when completed will irrigate I,ooo. 900 acres of rich valley land. The cost of the work. including number oi reser- vors along the line, will be about $I,ooc, ooo.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
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A A,elegram fiom Lexington, Kentucky, in reference to the vande,ta winch has been in progress in Rowan county foI several years during which score ol people have been killed says that lndict. ments against the following persona have been returned by the Rowan county grand jury 2 T. Young. Allie w. Young. John Trumbo and Green Mannin, for confederating against and conspinng to kill Howard Logan, and against John Trumbo and John. Kee. ton for the killing of H. Logan. They were admitted to bail in $500 each, ex- cept Trumbo and Keetiog. who were held in $I, 900 each.
 John Rogers who killed Nose Keeton in . fight last winter, and who wss him. self wounded, vas not indicted
 Judge Cole ordered the sheriff yester- day to summon fifty jurors from Flsn. ing county and euend the term of the court thirty days.
 The case of Moses Little for kiiling John MarloW was called and continued, for the defense, three days.
 At Morehead postof6ce Boone Logan va approached by Andy and and Wyiie Tolliver who demanded of him a watch they claimed was on the person of Bud Tolliver on the fatal s2d day of June. The lie was passed, and serious trouble seemed imminent, when bystanders interferei and stopped hos tilitiea The militia, seventy-fve strong are still on guard.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

foe 1880 fully attest their corectness in this respect Let the invalid seeking nes- toeation to health. before deciding where be shall go to find h, consider this fact well. It would be impossible to detil in thls pamphlet the class of invalbis which find the climate most bene6cial ; but chief among them are the sufferers from malaria. asthma. pulmonary afes- tions; in fact, to all who are 90 pecrl- iarly constituted as to require a sure asylum tn which the climate conditions are in perfect cadence Nllh the pulsa- tious of systems subjected to the vast ing away occasiooed by organic diseases of every description"
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
ApvreT,s,nc oua Rrsounoee.

SUssuN. August Io.-The counIy
 board of trade of Solano county con-
 lracted this week for the publicas,on of Io.eoo copies of ioo-paee pamphlet descriptive of the advantages and re sources Of this county. The articles acre written by L. B. Nlixner, William
 Pennycook, G. A. Gillespie. Themas S.
 Wilson and E. E. Leake. The book will be illustrated by county map aud
 number of photographic views of fruit
 farms and prominent buildings The residents of Solano county have been
 very backward in making known the ad-
 vantages of this section. but they po,nt
 with satisfaction to the fact that the daily
 dispatches received Of the fruit auctions
 in Chicago ard New York contain many
 names of prominent fruit-growers and
 shippers of Solano county.
 The above, clipped from the tele- graphic columns of yesterday sSan Fan
 cisco Chronicle, gives a complete key to the tactics which in the last year has rev
 olurionised Southern California. It has
 not been the wondrcus wealth with which
 nature has endowed that state which has created the extraordinary state ot busi- ness prosperity existing there. % much
 as the employment of every agency known to advertising to publish to the world the fact of the natural resourees of
 each countp. Under Spanish rule, for centuries California Lay dormant and inert, and under American rule, after the decadence of its mining industries. its
 wonderful wealth as an agricultural coun- try for years laid neglected until during the last few years printers ink pro- claimed 1t to the world.
 : In Arizona the same condition of af- fairs to-day prevails as prevailed . few years ago in California, with the excep- tion, perhaps. Of the Salt river valley. which is now reaping the benefits of liberal policy. inaugurated to attract cap ital and immigration. In Northern Ali sona a lethargy for years has prevailed, and each day sees it become more ads manline in its character. While it ex- ists prosperity can never come. It must he broken. and that, too, at once II the fature well-being Of Prescott and viein- ity is to be ensured. To sit longer in idleness is to see the scepter which Pres colt in the past has so long yielded pass forever flom its hands. Younger com munities are each day coming to the front. To claim that Prescott nov IS, and will, therefore, continue to exist. IS to preach fallacy in which only fools can find solace. Where is regal Troy and mighty Carthage, the once proud of the worldf Through the supineness of their citizens. strong in their own conceit, naught but tradiii ,n speaks M their greatness, and tut mark where they once existrd. We have faith in our resources and be. Iieve that all that is necessary is to pro claim to the world what nature has done for us, to ensure the coming of capital md new blood to create in Prescott an era of properity greater than any it has yet seen.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
ARIZONA ec.a nGALrm.

From the recent publication of Judge
 w. O. O'Neill, we copy the following very truthful excerpt on the sanitary
 features of our climate:
 ''It may we'll be doubted whether the climatic advantages possessed by Gen. traI Arizona from sanitary standpoint can be equaled by any of the far famed sanitariums of the world. The clear at- mosphere of the Rocky mountains IS here presented in its most engaging form, untainted by the terrible colds of the extreme north or the withesing heat of the southern attitudes. 1T pure air there be it is here, soft and balmy as that of fair Italy. The long, dark, bleak, depressing winters of northern attitudes, filled with the gloom that crushes gayety and cheerfulness out of nature, and fills the breast with undefina- ble longing and unres, are here replaced by a few brief months, inst crisp and brisk enough to make ones blood circu-' late with the effverescence of champagne, and cause the cheek to glow ~i,h more brilliant color than rauge coeld ever paint Life IS then compared to nothing in its blithesomeness save the trill of tae nightingale. The step grows elastic, and one feels as though he had drank from the fabulous fountain of eternal youth. And so it is throughout the year. The feeling of listless Iassitude, which elsewhere makes life burden is never felt here. as the pure and unvitiated at- mosphere at each respiration gives a supply of oxygen as exhilarafing as the wine cup. To none is this % apparent as to the sufferer from pulmonary and kindred complaints, who at once recog- nize and remark the experience. The balsamic odors oi the pine and fir are on the air, and together with the super abundant supply of ozone for healing agencies that soon renew the lung and bronchial tissues wasted and wosn by disease.
 "To this clase of eases a residence in Genital Arixooa is peculiarly beneficial Unlike Southern California and Florida which in the pas, have been the Meccas of consumption, Central Airzona is en- tirely free from heat and humid atmos- phere which makes those sections co objectionable. No person who has ever resided in Southern California in the vicinity of Los Angeles will ever forget the heavy fogs so prevalent along the coast, or the weakening tendencies of the r.rm months, and in Florida the nox- ious exhaiations from thousand swamps rottening in the burning glare Of . tropical sun present even more objec- tionable features. All these are absent here Throughout the entire year the mean average temperatures is about Go degrees Fahrenheit, being the same as that of the favored portions of South ern California. Throughout the entire year the weather is such as to permit life to be spent if desired, in the open air.
 No better proof of the healthfulness of Central Arizona, perhaps. can be ad- duced than the fact that the statistics of the medical department of the United States army show that Arizona is one of the healthiest regions of the world. and the figures of the United States census
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
When Omah. had a liouor license o1

When Omaha had a liquor license of $Ioo for each saloon the city had I@o saloons, and the revenue derived from licenses amounted to $IAooo per year. The license was raised to $I,ooo and the number of saloons was reduced in a few months to seventy, and the city obtained a revenue from license of $7o. 1000 per year. The experience in Minneapolis was similar.- Under the low license sys- tenn there were 8oo saloons in the city. The Incense raised to $I,ooo and the number of saloons has been reduced to 200 while the revenue has been increased SI,o,oo per year.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
Tho ouslnsss ou,leo..

R. G. Dunn C Co in their trade re- view, says that short crops in 1881 proved the turning point in business for seven years and the drouth this year, though resulting in less injury to the crops, comes at the time when real es- tate value at the vest have been usually inflated. Rains have broken the long drouih during the past week. but only after the official bureau had shown how serious vas the injury sustained, and the relief came too late to do any good in the extensive districts of the north west.
 The bureau reports losses which can not be repaired to considerable part of the hay crops, and to oats tobacco, potatoes. and fruits, little injury to cot ton and wheat aed decline of I7 per cent. in the condition ol corn. The work of destruction continued ten days after the bureau report were mades be- fore the rain came, and the aggregate loss of the farmers must exceed $3oo,- COG, ,ooo. \ difference is inevitable in the purchase of manufacured and imported goods by the northwest If prices had not been inflated by real estate boom. and if new indebtedness Of an enormous volume had not been created, loss of even tenth of the entire crop would have made little difference, but the wild speculation, in land and in town lots. the expendi- ture of many hundred millions in- vestmert of large sums m new railroad and manufactured works, render par tial loss of crops more important
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

We have heard many anxions inqul- ries from many of our citizens who so hberaIiy subscribed about S4o,ooo to the first mortgage bonds of the Prescott x Arizona Central railroad. and paid for them. as to what the receipts and ex- penditnres have been since its oonstruc- ,ion, and also complaining very much that they are unable to receive the in- terest coupons due July fst while the large holders of bonds, railroad compa- nies and others were paid their inter- es: July ,st. when due.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Bill Nye was travelling recently on the Chicago X Northwestern road, when one Of the trainboys asked him to purchase a book of humorous sketches. Much to his amusement, NIT. Nye discovered that the book was entirely composed of arti- cies from his own intellectual jack-plane, snumber of winch had been copyrighted. He had never before heard of the exist enoe of ,he volume, and he immediately began suit against the publisher for $2o,ooo damages for infringement of copyright.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
ttess 0 oeesn . Town

It is not generally known how t., write up . town; # it is not practiced. The following suggestions from an ex.- change are to the point and worthy oi pesusal: Talk about 1t write abou, t, help to improve i, i; speak we'll about it; beausify the streets patron ise the merchants; advertise tn it's news-- papefs; elect all good men to 6lices; speak we'll Of public spirited enterpsis-. ing citisens; if you are rich, employ somebody. he hustler" if you don't think of . good word to say, do not say anything that is bad about it; b. courteous to strangers that come among you. % thas they will @ away with good impressions; remember that every dollar you invest in . permanent improvement is that much on interest always cheer on the men who go in fos improvement, your proportion of the cost will be nothing only what is just; don't k,ck at any proposed necessary improvement because it is not at your own door. os for fear your taxes pill be raised fifteen cents.
 If during the week anything of pub- lie interest has occurred which might ap- pear in print to the credit of the com munity, tell it to the newspaper office 90 that it may be seen by the outside world. Never condemn a local paper unless it has unfairly used you. If it has deak with you unjusly, write to it or go into the office and talk with the editor about your case; if he vas wrong he will lose no time to tell h to the public. Don't dse rubber staups on your letter heads, as t is . dead give away on your business, and on your town and the newspaper published in it Get your letter heads, envelopes etc, printed at your home office. If you owe the newspaper . dollar, or five dollars or twenty-five cents pay t if you can; there IS no other force in the community that can do anything ike the same amount of good for it as the country newspaper. It deserves prompt aud fair remuneration.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

IL is source of great regret on the part of the taxpayers of Yavapai county, who so hberally contributed SeSo, 900 in bonds of the county. that the super visors did not employ some oompe- tent and careful engineer 10 thoroughly inspect the line of road selected by Mir. Bullock and insist, before the bonds were delivered to him, that the iron should have been laid upon the high mesa land route instead of over the wash aud valley land route.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

An exchange reports Rev. K G. Chatterjse. of India, who is now at Sar- atoes. as saying that he ''has suffered more from the heat in America than in his rative country" Mir. Chatteuee may be a truthful man, but his assertion sounds greatly like that of a Phenix man shivering in Prescott, while at the same time he complains of suffering more from the heat than in the Salt river valley.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
The recent killing in Ton,o Basi

The recent killing in Tonso Basin gives promise of costing this county sev- eral thousand dollars before the question is adjudica,ed in the courts The in- formation thus far received of the trag- edy is very meager. no particulars being obtaInable. That there has been kill ing there is no longer any doubt. as war rants have been issued for the parties suspected of the work. Some of our Phenix contemporaries have already jumped at conclusions which facts re- ceived here do not warrant m the case.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
San lose has caueh. on the real est

San Jose has caught on the real estate boom and sales there now foot up as high as $I, ,ooo, 900 per day. An elec- tric railway, running from Santa Clara through San Jose to Alum Rocks, eight miles east Of that city. IS being built, and will be completed inside of ninety days The total length of the road will be twelve miles.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Every man interested in the future of Prescott should make i; point 10 a:- tend the mass meeting te be held next Tuesday evening. The question is one of wits! importance 10 the prosperity of the town. The board of trade are using laudable efforts to advertise the town,
 bu, the work eanno, be done by hand
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
No,withstandine the large reward O.

Notwithstanding the large reward of- fered for the arrest and conviction Of the Pantano train robbers, the Citizens an nounces that the officers have virtually abandoned the chase, and returned to Tucson. It is now stated that the amonpt received is between $3o, 900 and $4o, 1000, a neat little sum of itself for the robbers to retire on and settle down to respec- fihilifv
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

ful of men, Property owners should place their shoulders to the wbeel and assist in the work inaugurated by this body. All petty bickerings or personal differences should be los, sight of. and united sfforts made to promote the pros perIfy of the place.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

William Marshall, who was ore of the first passengers on the new street rail road Schenectady, New York, was the conductor on the first passenger train, drawn partly by horses. that ran be tween Schenectady ard Albany in 1881. He is eighty-seven years old and has never known a sick day.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

A recently published volume of selec- tions from Virgil contains map of hell to accompany the sixth book of the Eneid A man who is getting out history of Texas is trying to borrow the map to ac- company his book.-Nonistown Herald.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
General George Crook, U. s. A.

General George Crook, U. s. A. says the Cheyenne Leader. 'is visiting Fort D. A. Russei The general has many friends in Cheyenne, and in fact throughout the west, and in this sec tion is regarded as the greatest Indian fighter who ever crossed the Mi ssouri. |" Arizona will join Wyoming in according to General Crook the honer of being the the best Indian fighter that ever crossed the Missouri river.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
Ceoree Brinski the man who serve

George Brinski, the man who served three years in the union army during the war of the rebellion as substitute for Grover Cleveland, died in the Sol diers Home, at Bath, New York, of con sumption. It will now be in order for the president to make one fhis charac
 teristic ten dollar donations for the occa-
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Ii owners Of mining claims could learn to speak well of properties owned by others, and not isud their own and decrY all others. a mining boom would be sooner inaugurated here.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, who is stopping at West Point, IS preparing a histor,cal work. which IS to be pub lished in the tall.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

No town ever yet had boom in which its newspapers were left out, and in which they did no, constitute an i'm portant factor.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Cleveland has made anoiher ten-dol- lar donation. This time II IS for the best show of triplets at the East Aurora, Ere county. N. Y., fair:
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

The California boom is extending into the San Joaquin and Santa Clara valleys. The latter valley is without doubt the garden spot of the state
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

There IS DO end to "clues" of the train robbers, but the robbers themselves or their booty do not msterialize
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Address Registered letiers 10 VIEW ORLEANis NATlONAL "A M New OPAeo0a. 1zo
 REMEMBER gss.r.,. gs.. .ss Ps:::as: Pss:ses:.:s q and Early, who are in charge sf the drawinss. is c guarantee of bsolute fairness and fnt6g. fity, that the chaiicss all equal, and thaa no one can possibly divine what numbsn will draw prize.
 9EAGADE9 that the paymeut of all Prises ia GUA nAXrEED 1T rOU8 IA. I1Oy AL HAN k~ Of New Orleans. and the Tfokets ere signed by she Dre<idenf Of an in.
 st1sution, whose chartered rights arc Tocog:
 nisea in the hlgh< ss courfs; therefore, beSnre
 of any limitations ar anony m. Jus schemes.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24

Nebraska prohibtionists have nomi- mated state ticket
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-08-24
The taxable property of the territory this year foots up $s6.3I3soa aI.

The New York Labor party has nom- mated Henry George for secretary of sHafe